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Electric Chair, Executions series (Figure 0049)
Catherine Chalmers‘ executions series depicts roaches being electrocuted, hung from miniature nooses, and burned at the stake. None of the roaches in the photographs however was actually burned or executed or hung-in fact, the roaches were already dead by the time they were photographed. In the case of the gas [...]

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Plant genes switched on by sound waves – tech – 30 August 2007 – New Scientist Tech
CAN plants hear? They all respond to light, which affects how they optimise growth and survival. Plants also have a sense of touch, allowing them to stiffen in [...]

Otto van Busch pointed me to this new course of Fashion & Technology at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University. The course explores the field through a study of clothing and style as socio-cultural communication and an investigation of how emerging technologies can assist in personal expression. After that, practical workshops invite [...]

Domesticity at War (Amazon USA and UK), by Princeton professor and theorist Beatriz Colomina.
Editor Actar’s blurb: In the postwar, cold war years, there emerges a new type of modern architecture that represents a fundamental transformation from only five decades prior. In Domesticity at War, Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a new, and very potent weapon [...]

Jean-Baptiste Labrune recently pointed me to this excellent overview of “Walking as art.” Here’s a new project to add to that list:
The Energy Harvesting Dérive turns the popular Heelys roller sneaker into a platform for generating electricity from human motion.

Electricity harvested from rolling powers a microcomputer and lcd display embedded on the shoe to deliver [...]

August is ending and everyone is coming back from the beach. Including the interviews!
Jessica Findley lives in Brooklyn where she works as a “freelance designer, illustrator and animator.” That brief description hardly encompasses all Jessica’s many activities and talents: she makes animated movies, crafts reversable dolls, she draws, she is also a web designer but [...]

Modell zur Visualisierung enables a visualization of sound based on the impact of magnetic fields on an electron beam. The precisely crafted soundtrack created for this project comprises of a constellation of sine wave tones. A coil within the cathode ray tube receives these frequencies converting them into a magnetic field whose impact becomes visible [...]

It’s Sunday and what else could i do but pay a visit to the world’s biggest dinosaur skeleton at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin.

The 150-million-year-old skeleton of the Brachiosaurus is 12 metres high by 22 metres long (its femur alone weighs 300kg) and although i’m not at all into that Jurassic Park [...]

I’m officially going back to work today. I’m not sure i’d be able to define what i mean by “work” given that, as my brother would tell you, my life is “a constant holiday anyway”. Well, i do not exactly agree with him and i have until tonight to figure out what to say about [...]

There’s currently a fantastic installation at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. The work brings magic and poetry to the otherwise stiff and boring exhibition space located on the dreadful Unter den Linden. As you push the door of the DG open, you enter a totally different universe, with a greenhouse, a wooden construction and plots [...]

Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man (Amazon USA and UK), by Jessica Bruder.
What it says on the tin: Burning Book is both a loving commemoration of the event’s storied history and an enlightening companion for festivalgoers. Bruder explores the unique ethos and breathtaking art installations that have shaped the event, along with Black [...]

By Richard Kalvar.

Electric Chair, Executions series (Figure 0049)
Catherine Chalmers‘ executions series depicts roaches being electrocuted, hung from miniature nooses, and burned at the stake. None of the roaches in the photographs however was actually burned or executed or hung-in fact, the roaches were already dead by the time they were photographed. In the case of the gas [...]